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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-22
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.


THE General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor have ordered boycott OF
Higgins's carpet factory, New York estab,
lishment employing large number of hands
who are all members of the Order. Conse-
quently the action of the General Executive
Board has created much excitement among
New York Knights Of Labor, and is de-
nounced by the Master Workman of District
Assembly No. 126.
THE steamship Umbria has just beaten al
previous records by making the passage from
Queenstown to New York in six days, four
hours and twelve minutes.
BEARS killed in Maine woods last year num-
bered more than six hundred.
CH1EF-JUsTIcE ULYSSES MERcUR, of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died at the
residence of his son in Wallingford, Penn,
Monday, aged seventy-one years.
THE two rear cars of train left the track
at Pownal Station, Vt, and were wrecked
Twelve persons were injured more or less
severely.
EDITOR O'BRIEN has sailed from New York
for England The night previous to his de
parture prominent citizens of New York gave
a banquet in his honor and he was given
S25, 900 to help in the campaign in Ireland.
After the banquet he was escorted to the
steamer by the Sixty-ninth Regiment.
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PANIC IN A CATHEDRAL.

A Number Of Mexican Women and
Children Crushed to Death.
4 fatal panic occurred a few days since in
the Catholic Cathedral at Chihuahua, Mexico
A dispatch from that place gives the follow
ing particulars:
The day was one set apart for floral offer
ings to the Virgin Mary, and at half-past five
mcst of the children OF the city, fantastic
ally dressed and wreathed with dow
ers, were placing their floral gifts around
the figure of the Holy Mother, which was
draped III white gauze. A little boy in plac-
ing his flowers knocked one of the large
candles against the figure and in an instant
the alter was mass Of flames.
The scene that followed battles description.
There were between four and five thousand
people in the building, and nearly all were
women and children. As soon as the flames
were seen every one made 8 rush
for the doors and a frightful crush
followed. Children we're torn away from
their mothers and trampled under foot.
Handsomely dressed ladies were helped out
completely disrobed and cut and bruised.
Mothers who had already reached the outside
made frantic efforts TO enter again to rescue
their children.
The sights and sounds were frightful. Poor
little children thrown down upon the cold
stones and their little upturned faces
crushed out of shape by the sharp heels
above them. The fire was put out almost
as soon as it caught, and nothing more than
the drapery about the figure of the Virgin
Mary was consumed. veralprominentl lAe1l-
can and American gentlemen hurried to the
doors as soon as they heard the cries, pushed
the police aside and used every endeavor to
quiet the people, but were only fortunate
enough to rescue some Of those that fell near
the DOORS
The casualties were two women and three
children killed, and between twenty-five and
thirty seriously injured and many more or
less hurt. The incompetence of the
police was palpable, and the church,
when seen the next morning, presented
a sad testimony to the frenzied struggle
of the night before. Handsome silk skirts
and cotton shawls were found in shreds.
Fans, shoes, hats and other articles of female
apparel or adornmeat were strewn over the
church, and worse than all, here and there
dark spot on the stones showed where life
blool had been trampled out.
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The Minneapolis Tribune tells of a new

The Minneapolis Tribune tells of new
feature in Baptist merrymakings: The
young men distinguished themselves by
the preparation of supper at the church
parlors, including ices, ice cream and
charlotte russo. 1t was incumbent upon
each young man to make with his own
hands a cake, and as result nearly
thirty specimens of these culinary tri-
umphs were set out before the throng in
attendance. They were in all shapes
and sizes, and some of them were tear
stained and bore evidence of many weary
hours of deep thought and anxiety. The
men danced attendance as walters at the
tables and wore colors corresponding
orange-yellow, pink and blue.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JOAQUIN MILLER is going to establish lit
erary colony at Fruit Valley, California.
GOVERNOR DAVIS of Rhode Island is en-
Enthusiastically interested in Sunday school
work.
DIR. q. T. PECK, professor of Latin and
Greek in Columbia College, is barely thirty
years Of age.
The widow Of the late Hepry Ward Beecher
has taken up her residence with her daughter
at Stamford, Conn.
COLONEL FRED GRANT, besides inheriting
his fathers appearance, has also his lnordinate
love of good cigar.
MARY L. BARR, who is making success OF
Scottish dialect stories, did not begin to COM
pose until she was fifty-four.
SENAToR-ELKcT PAsco from Florida served
in the Confederate Army, and he has brother
who was in the Union Army.
LORD LANsDowNE, the Governor General
Of Canada, owns something like 95,OV0 acres
in County Kerry, Ireland, alone.
JOHN D. LAUBERIANN, Of Philadelphia, has
given 81, ,0O0, 900 for German hospital to be
under the charge of Lutheran deaconesses.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT has decided to dO
away with the practice of making military
prisoners carry heavy logs for punishment
NJ. CHEVREUL, the french cen1enaflaii
chemist, has a remarkably keen sense of smell,
which extreme age has not in the least I'M
paired.
GENERAL V1scERENr TANN1, the japanese
Minister Of Agriculture, who is now visiting
in this country, keeps two secretaries BUSY
recording his observations.
EDITOR O'BRIEN, the Irish Home Rule agi-
tator, has a very peculiar delivery when
speaking in public. He emits each word be-
tween his teeth as though biting it.
MRs. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE is growing
wealthy by the advance in real estate values,
having but recently been offered S15O,OOO for
her Edgewood estate near Washington.
8. v. WHITE, member of Congress from,
Brooklyn, was once a wagon builder at
Galesburg, ILL.,, at eight cents an hour. His
board then cost him seventy-five cents q
week He is now millionaire.
HARRIET HosMER, the sculptor, whose
chisel earned her fame and fortune, lost lot
of money in Keely motor stock, and Anna
Dickinson sunk in her dramatic experience
the fortune she made as lecturer.
MRS. SARAH FISHER AMES whose bust OF
Lincoln occupies the post of honor at the
Capitol of Washington, is still flne-looking
woman, and in her day was called the most
beautiful American girl ever seen abroad.
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EDITOR 0'BRIEN.

Refusing to Attend the Demonstra-
tion in New York. =.
The monster parade and meeting in New
York Saturday night in honor of Editor,
O'Brien was conspicuous by, the Irish agitass
tors absence. Mr. O'Brien refused to attend
because the Chairman, Mr.. McMackin, had
recently presided at a meeting. addressed by
the alleged Number One" of the conspiracy
to kill, Cavendish and Burke in Iraland, and
because the proposed resolutions favored
Henry Georges doctrine Of abolishing private
property in land. he made a statement say
ing that to participate in the demonstration
under the circumstances would injure the
cause Of Irish Home Rule. DR.. .McGlynn,
George and other speakers severely criticised
demonstration was gotten up under the aus.
pices Of the United Labor Party Of the Me-
tropoliS
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Three Lives Lost in New York.

At accident occurred in Martins cement
quarries at Binnewaters, N. Y, Saturday
morning, by which three men were killed and
three others were injured Hugh Farrell, a
survivor, gave this version of the affair: "We
were operating steam drills in Martins lower
tunnel I was with James Cullen, boss
of the drill in the lower heading. Above us
were Elmor Garfield and Norman Bell, who
were running steam drill there. About
twenty minutes after we began to drill
sudden explosion occurred in the upper head
ing. was knocked down by piece Of rock.
Cullen was terribly shattered about the
head and died in few minutes Canfeld's
head was blown to atoms, he being dead when
found. Norman Bell lived only few mo,
ments; he leaves a wife and two children.
Cullen was man of fifty with wife and
three children. Garfield was young man
lately married. Iescaped with the loss of my
little finger and a bruised face Martin
Malice and Richard Miller, who were some
distance away, received slight injuries"
Farrell thinks the explosion was caused by
the drill striking an unexploded dynamite
cartridge in an old hole, The custom is to
put off several blasts at nearly one time, and
the only way to know if all have exploded is
to count the reports.
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tives Of his deceased wife and friends, who
have been bound to him from boyhood by
the closest ties of affection, were grouped
with his pastor and physician about him
when the final summons came
The following telegram from fremont,
Ohio, signed "R. B. Hayes" was received at
Mr.. Wheeler's home a few hours after his
death. "Mrs. Hayes and have heard with
deepest sorrow Of the death Of our friend, Mr.
son."
William A. Wheeler, IL. D., ex-Vice-
President, was born June 80, 1919, in Malone,
Franklin county, N. Y. He entered the Uni
versity Of Vermont and afterward COM
menced the study of law with Colonel Asa
Hascan He was made Distlict-Attorney
for Franklin county, and was its Super
intendent Of Schools. In the years of 1850
and 1851 Mr.. Wheeler represented that county
in the New York House Of Assembly, and
was a member of the Senate of New York in
1858 and 1859, and the President pro tenn Of
that body. He was member and the Presi-
dent of the New York Constitutional Conven-
tion in 1867 and 1885, and was elected a Re-
publican in Congress to the Thirty seventh,
Forty first, Forty second, Forty-third, and
Forty fourth Congresses In the political
complications which arose in Louisiana dur
ing the session of the Forty-third Congress
Mr.. Wheeler was conspicuous, he having
been Chairman Of the Special Commit
the of the House of Representatives
that visited Louisiana and finally ad-
justed the difficulties existing there on the
basis of what is known as the "Wheeler
Compromise" In June, 1876, Mr.. Wheeler
was unanimously nominated for the Vice
Presidency of the United States by the Re-
publican National Convention at Cincinnati,
on the ticket with Rutherford B. Hayes.
After serving his term of four years, Mr..
Wheeler returned to Malone, where, his health
having given way, he lived quietly and in re-
tirement until his death. He was one Of the
organizers of the Bank of Malone, and held
the position of cashier and chief managing
director. He was Trustee of the New York
Railway Company.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

DETROIT has the finest playing grounds in
the country.
THOMPSON, Of Detroit, leads the League in
two-base hits.
BIRMINGHAM has taken the place of Mobile
in the Southern League.
THE battery of New York amateur club
consists of a father and son.
MANY New York clergymen are regular
visitors at the Polo Grounds.
SULLIVAN, left-felder Of the Chicagos,
dropped five fly balls in one game.
A SERIES Of games is being projected by
the printers Of Boston and New York.
THIRTY THOUSAND people witnessed the
three Philadelphia Detroit games in the for
mer city.
THE Cuban Giants are playing great ball
this season. They are the best team Of col
ored players ever formed
WEIGH, centre-felder of st. Louis, is ac-
quiring the reputation of being the most phe-
nomenal fielder in the country.
EZRA SUTTON, the veteran Boston player,
wants his release. He won't allow himself to
be sold, but wants a straight release.
NEARLY all the heavy batters in the Ma
tional League strike at the ball left-handed,
while the reverse is the case with the Amerl-
can Association.
CAPTAIN ANsoN, Of the Chicagos, says that
the official scorer in Chicago robbed him out
of the first place in the batting list OF the
League last year.
KNoUFF and left-handed Smith, the pitch
ers for whom there was such fight last sea-
son, have thus far proved failures. Baltl-
more has both of them.
THE gross receipts of the National League
Clubs last year amounted to not less than
$500 900. It is estimated that the receipts Tor
1887 will amount to $4OO,OOO
GARFIELD, a son of the e1-President,
pitches for the Oberlin Ohio College CLUB,
and plays good amateur game. Garheld
was great admirer of the sport, and was
regular attendant when a Representative In
Congress
The Colored National Baseball League
seems to have melted down to three CLUBS
The Gorhams, of New York; Lord Baltl-
,nores of Baltimore, and the Pythians, of
Philadelphia, are the only teams able to keep
up, and they will arrange schedule among
themselves.
SrAGG and Damn, the Yale College battery,
is a team of which any professional club may
be proud. They are two of the finest players
on the diamond and hold the professional
batters down to small percentage OF hits
Stapg is O small, wiry young man, with plen-
ty Of nerve and good judgment.
PIKE. when member Of the Athletics, once
made six home runs in game, five beng
made in five consecutive times at bat. barry
Wright once made seven in one game re-
marEable game was played years ago by the
Athletics, IN which twenty-five home runs
were scored, three players on the team max
ing five runs each.
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Anew York railroad man tells Mail
and Erpess reporter that the mile a
minute speed is myth. Occasionally,
he says, trains on stretch of level track
with an easy grade make a mile minute,
but the fastest express train in the United
States, the New York and Philadelphia
limited, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
averages 4s $40 miles an hour. TIE
average fast express of the United States
reaches 36a miles an hour. The fastest
train in the world is the "Flying Dutch
man." which averages SO is miles On
an hour, between London and Bristol.
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Money is now abundant for specula'
tion in railways and lands, but, adds the
New York american, the supply must
gradually diminish under the present
prodigality. When the pinch and cramp
come, as they most assuredly will, then
look out for the crash. The vast real es
tate speculations of 1886 were the cause
of the smash-up of 1887. Likewise the
breakdown of 1857 was caused by the
wild real estate speculation of 1856 and
1856. In many cities and in many sec.
tions the brake should be put on at once.
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Quoting from the Albany Journal that
a Bridgeport woman is believer in the
blue glass theory, the New York Sun
adds: "she ought to change and adopt
the Blue Grass theory. In that blissful
region all the girls are beautiful, and be-
fore they are twenty every one of them is
married to the man she loves best.
Bridgeport is dull and hopeless in COM
parison."
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A HEAVY UPHEAVAL.
The Yosemite Region Shaken by an
EarthUuakc.

The Yosemite Region Shaken by an
Earthquake.
An earthquake shook the greater portion OF
Northern California and Western Nevada be-
tween and o'clock the other morning. One
house near Geneva, Nevada, after the
earthquake, was surrounded by cracks III
the ground from an inch to foot in width,
and another shake equally as heavy would
have destroyed every brick house in the town.
At Sacramento houses were shaken until the
windows ratified. In the Yosemite Valley the
shock was distinctly felt At Carson
City, Nevada, pictures and plaster
ing fell from the walls. A large
amount Of plastering was torn from the Su-
preme Court room in the Capitol building
The Hot Springs are reported dried up. Vh-
ginia City, TruclSee, Marysville, Chico and
Nevada City are a few of many other points
affected by the shock.
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There was not dentist among the
mourners at the funeral of Littleton
Payne, who died in Maryland few days
ago. He came into the world equipped
with set of teeth which lasted him until
bis exit from this mundane sphere. The
years of his life were three score and ten.
Mr.. Payne was certainly an obstruction In
the path of dental science.
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"Sportsmen are catching many Ger.
man carp at a pond in Litchfield county" "
saws the New Haven Neus. "This tallies
with other reports that the carp has
thrived in almost all the waters of the
State where it has been placed. The
carp is not gamesome, but properly pre-
pared for the table can be made quite a
delicacy, and promises ere long to be an
important addition to our list of food
fish -
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According to the mint reports, Cali
fornia has dropped to the third place
among the States and Territories asa pro-
ducer of precious metals. 1t still ranks
6rst in the production of gold, but is
awav behind Colorado and Montana in
the production of silver and in the total
value of the output.
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Millions of Sharks and Mackerel.

A Norkfolk WAY dispatch says that Cap
tain Steelman, of the schooner Susan B. Ray
reports that on May %, while off Cape Look
out, bound north, his vessel ran into an i'm
mense school of sharks in seventeen fathoms
of water. They were las thick as they posi-
bly, could be-" he says, and the school ex-
schooner sailed through them for fully an
hour, making only about three miles. After
getting clear of the sharks she encountered
shoaI of nlackerel and sailed through them
for four hours. Capt. Steelman says he meyer
before saw mackerel in waters south of
Body'S Island.
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Here is a good word for the women.
An English statistician has discovered
that the married men live longer and
live better lives than bachelors. Among
every 1000 bachelors there are thirty
eight criminals; among married men the
ratio is only eighteen per 1000.
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Washington.

FROM January to June this year 2, ,35l
miles of railroad have been built in the
United States, mostly in the West. This is
the greatest milage ever recorded with the
exception of the same period in 1862.
Mr.. w. w. CoRcoRAN, the millionaire
philanthropist of Washington, was suddenly
stricken with paralysis in the left arm and
leg Monday afternoon while at dinner.
THE redemption of trade dollars to date
amounts to about s7,OOo,OOO and Treasury
officials think that few more are outstanding.
THERE is talk of testing the legality of the
Interstate Commission in the courts
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DISASTER AT a CIRCUS.

Many Persons Burned and Many
Trampled to Death.
In the course of circus performance at
Neschen, Germany, the other evening storm
arose and O portion of the roof of the circus
structure was blown off. The pendent lamps
hanging from the roof were broken
and the blazing petroleum poured
down upon the heads of the peo-
Die below. There we're 1000 spectators and
fearful panic arcse. In the midst of the
tumult some of the lightly built walls of the
structure fell in ard the whole building I'M.
mediately collapsed. A large number of
persons were burned and many trampled to
death, and 800 Others were more or less In
jured.
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The Bodyke Evictions.

The evictions at Bodyke, Ireland. continue.
A tenant, Mcnamara, who was behind in his
rent, defended his house, but the bailiffs broke
hole in the wall. Logs and boiling, water
were thrown through the hole at
the evicting force. A policeman dashed
through the opening made by the bailiffs, and
other officers followed him. A fight ensued,
and the tenants were evicted and afterward
arrested. The bailiffS charge the tenants
with having thrown vitriol upon them but
this is denied. A tenant named Murphy made
q similar resistance.
At meeting of the Irish National League
in Dublin the consensus of opinion of those
present was that the course of Mr.. Davitt in
advising tenants to resist eviction was not
WISE Timothy Harrington, Secretary of the
League, announced that the Organizing
Council would implore the tenants not to a.
low anything to drive them to violence,
which wonld be to play into the enemy's
hands.
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The annual losses by fire in the United
States amount to $l2o, 600, 900, and the
consumption of cigars, cigarettes and
smoking tobacco amounts to $206, ,0O0,-
900. Total destruction by fire, 1895, ,oOo,'
mn
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THE Car has an album with the pictures
of oII the Nihilists who have been implicated
in plots against his life When the last at
tempt was made he remarked that the album
would soon be filed, as there were only few
moro pages left.
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THE Berlin police photograph criminals in
profile so as to show the left ear. The theory
Is that the features Of the face change, but
the ear does not, and also that no two persons
have identical ears.
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MILLIONAIRE FLOOD has recently incloeed
his San Francisco palace with bronze fence
which cost $50, 900, and he is now adding two
large bronze gates, each weighing 4,00
pounds, and which viii cost S15,GoQ more.
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u O. MILLS, Whitelaw Reid's father-in-
law. has given 1000 for the purpose OF
erecting a new building on the grounds OF the
Bellevue Hospital, New York, to be used as
training school for male nurses.
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A RATTsEsNAKE was found In the mail
pouch taken on the train at Morrow's Station,
Ga, the other day, and be soon had full pos
session of the maI car.